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- Missouri's Governor Has Signed A Law Criminalizing Abortions After 8 Weeks
- "Booksmart" Is Honest About Almost Everything — Except Money
- Three New Jersey Colleges Are Investigating After A Video Of Students Using Racial Slurs Went Viral
- The Live-Action "Sonic" Movie's Release Is Being Delayed So They Can Redesign The Character's Look
- Season 2 Of "Killing Eve" Killed The Queer Subtext, And All The Fun Along With It
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Missouri's Governor Has Signed A Law Criminalizing Abortions After 8 Weeks
It contains no exception for rape or incest, and any doctor performing an abortion after eight weeks could face 5-15 years imprisonment.
Amber Jamieson
In “Booksmart,” Good Grades Are Still Enough To Get You Into A Top College
Olivia Wilde's girl-centric Gen Z comedy is gloriously frank when it comes to sexuality and substances, but it’s less interested in its own class tensions.
Alison Willmore
A College Student Is No Longer Enrolled At School After A Video Showing A Group Of White Students Using The N-Word Went Viral
After BuzzFeed News contacted the Monmouth University, a spokesperson said the student was "immediately contacted" by an official and "is no longer enrolled at the university."
Tanya Chen
The Live-Action "Sonic" Movie's Release Is Being Delayed So They Can Redesign The Character's Look
When the film's first trailer dropped last month, angry fans criticized Sonic's design — and his human-like teeth.
Michael Blackmon
Season 2 Of "Killing Eve" Killed The Queer Subtext, And All The Fun Along With It
Straight women are sublimating their rage against men by expressing their desire for starlets to strangle them or run them over with a car — but they don’t necessarily have the guts to scream, “Fist me, Sandra Oh.”
Natalie Adler
Kenya Has Upheld A Law That Punishes LGBT People For Having Sex
In a major blow to LGBT advocates, Kenya’s High Court said colonial-era laws outlawing gay sex should stay in place.
Tamerra Griffin
Here’s Why Authors All Tweet An Ugly Screenshot From The Same Websites
Hard-to-read screenshots of paywalled book industry websites dominate Literary Twitter.
Katie Notopoulos
The ACLU And Planned Parenthood Are Suing Alabama Over The State's New Abortion Law
The law's supporters have all but acknowledged that they’ll lose, but the goal is to force a Roe v. Wade showdown at the US Supreme Court.
Zoe Tillman
Sofia Vergara Said She’ll Be Happy With Her “Modern Family” Character’s Ending
“Gloria has such a great life and such a beautiful family that I think anything that the writers have prepared for her, I’m going to be happy with.”
Matt Ford
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Morning Update: June Is The End Of May
Factoring electability into the Democratic race, Facebook's bad content, your weekend longreads. Your BuzzFeed News newsletter, May 24.
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
A New “Star Wars” Movie Based On “Knights Of The Old Republic” Is In The Works
BuzzFeed News has exclusively learned that Laeta Kalogridis is writing the KOTOR screenplay.
Kate Aurthur
The New Charges Against Julian Assange Are Unprecedented. Press Freedom Groups Say They're A Threat To All Journalists.
Legal experts say the new indictment against Assange is the first time the Justice Department has used the Espionage Act to charge a third party — not the government leaker — with publishing classified information.
Zoe Tillman
Rockefeller University Has Admitted “There Were Warning Signs” That A Doctor Sexually Abused Children For Decades
An attorney says the famed hospital missed many chances to protect young patients from Reginald Archibald, who is now dead.
Stephanie M. Lee
The ACLU Has Filed A $100 Million Claim Against The US Over The Fatal Border Patrol Shooting Of A Guatemalan Woman
Claudia Patricia Gómez, 20, was shot in the head after her group was confronted by a Border Patrol agent in Texas.
Adolfo Flores
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Is Facing 17 More Criminal Charges In The United States
A grand jury returned a new indictment against Assange adding charges related to his alleged conspiracy with Chelsea Manning to solicit and publish classified government information.
Zoe Tillman
Congress Reached A $19.1 Billion Disaster Aid Deal After Trump Caved On Border Funding
The deal includes close to $1 billion in funding for Puerto Rico that Trump had objected to. The Senate passed the bill Thursday and Trump is expected to sign it by the end of the week.
Paul McLeod
Amazon Filed A Patent To Record You Before You Even Say "Alexa"
Amazon Echo devices could one day capture, process, and record audio spoken before the wake word for commands like “Play some music, Alexa.”
Nicole Nguyen
Twitter Is Showing More Ads, And People Are Seeing Lots Of Weird Crap As A Result
One malicious campaign used false articles about Drake and the Weeknd to promote casinos.
Craig Silverman
The Only Latino Running For President Thinks Democrats' "Electability" Fight Is Missing The Point
“The worst thing we can do is to make assumptions or use some cookie-cutter formula about who ought to be the nominee of the party,” Julián Castro told BuzzFeed News.
Nidhi Prakash
The Justice Department Argues That Congress Can't Sue The Trump Administration At All
A federal judge in Washington, DC, heard arguments Thursday in House Democrats' lawsuit challenging Trump's plan to reprogram billions in federal funds to build a border wall.
Zoe Tillman
There’s So Much More Garbage On Facebook Than You Even Realize, And It’s Impossible To Keep Up
There are 1.56 billion daily active users on Facebook, and the platform disabled 2.19 billion fake accounts in the first quarter of 2019. Plus, more disturbing stats from the company's latest Community Standards Enforcement Report.
Davey Alba
Scientists Showed How More Guns Led To More Violent Crime
A Supreme Court case may soon create a constitutional right to freely carry a gun everywhere, but that would be a dangerous mistake to make, suggests a new study of violent crimes.
Dan Vergano
Democrats Like The Idea Of A Gay President. But They Are Quietly Worried About Mayor Pete.
“I’ve heard him talk, and I like him, and I really support him," one voter said of Pete Buttigieg. "But I’m concerned that we might not be able to bring as many people to vote in the general election.”
Molly Hensley-Clancy
"Aladdin" Is Bad!!!
No one cares about people “ruining” the things we loved when we were growing up — but that doesn’t change the fact that the new Aladdin is objectively terrible.
Scaachi Koul
Morning Update: Seth Rogen, Thirst Object
The president storms out, Modi wins another term, more accusations against Tony Robbins. Your BuzzFeed News newsletter, May 23.
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Hindu Nationalism Just Won Another Crushing Election Victory In India
Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist BJP are on course for reelection with a stronger majority than 2014.
Nishita Jha
US Authorities Have Confirmed A 10-Year-Old Migrant Girl Died In Custody Last Year
The girl had a history of congenital heart defects and fell into a coma after surgery, officials said.
Adolfo Flores
High-Dollar Donations Funded Bernie Sanders' Policy Group A Year Before His 2020 Campaign
The Sanders Institute raised more than $361,000 last year from a total of 13 large contributions.
Ruby Cramer
Advocates Say Mitch McConnell’s Anti-Smoking Bill Is Flawed And Will Be Exploited By Tobacco Companies
“It creates the opportunity to push for undoing.”
Paul McLeod
Amazon Shareholders Rejected Employees' Call To Respond To Climate Change
Shareholders on Wednesday rejected a proposal backed by 7,700 employees to come up with a climate change plan.
Leticia Miranda
Trump Lost Again Trying To Stop Democrats From Getting His Financial Records
A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday denied Trump's request for an injunction blocking House subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One.
Zoe Tillman
These Old Photos Show What Fleet Week Used To Look Like
For this year's Fleet Week, here's a look back at the excitement and mischief of yesteryear that could only happen in the Big Apple.
Gabriel H. Sanchez
AOC: Facial Recognition Is Growing Amid "A Global Rise In Authoritarianism And Fascism”
Ocasio-Cortez expressed concerns after a House Oversight Committee hearing on facial recognition Wednesday.
Davey Alba
Unsealed Documents Show Mueller Knew Trump Was Writing Secret Checks To Michael Cohen In 2017
A federal judge in Washington, DC, unsealed search warrant applications that the special counsel’s office filed in 2017 for Cohen’s email accounts.
Zoe Tillman
A Mississippi Lawmaker Allegedly Punched His Wife Because She Undressed Too Slowly For Sex
Rep. Douglas McLeod, who is now out of jail, is facing calls for his resignation over the domestic violence arrest.
Julia Reinstein
Almost All The 2020 Presidential Candidates Say They Want To Make Roe V. Wade Law
The proposal isn’t new, but before last week it lived in relative obscurity. Now, nearly every Democrat running for president has it at the top of their platform.
Ema O'Connor
